English manners are followed rare on the table when we sit around with our immediate friends for a quick snack-on to which our clothes end up being a catastrophe. Stains sit on your clothes even after rigorous wash and to get along with them is like a no deal-breaker.

Here are five things that will make your clothes live longer and better while leaving no stains unturned.

#1

WHITE VINEGAR

There are few stains who are extremely stubborn and don’t want to get out of their zone. In this case, you need to apply undiluted vinegar to the stains to kill the stains by leaving no trace behind. Soak it after a clean wash with detergent. Throw away the detergent water and keep it out to dry. Repeat the process if necessary.

#2

BE QUICK

Do not make a mistake of building a friendship with your stains by keeping it alongside you forever. Let it go because your slow act might kill your favorite attire. Hit that stain before it sets in.

#3

LEMON JUICE

Apart from feeding yourself with vitamin C containing lemon, feed the stain by squeezing lemon juice onto the stains thus killing all the bacteria that were sitting on your clothes.

#4

SUNSHINE

We take the early few hours of sunshine to get the amount of vitamin D required for our body to remain healthy. Now, in order to erase those greasy stains from your clothes, you need to clean the stain with a mild detergent and allow it to dry under the scorching heat. Next minute, you will see, your stains disappearing.

#5

BAKING SODA

Baking soda comes handy in most of our daily tasks. One can dilute one tablespoon of baking soda to lukewarm water and keep it for a few minutes. You can use the diluted baking soda on the affected area to reduce the loudness of the stain.

Like the other various parts of the human body, our hair plays a central role in enhancing one’s features.

Hair fall has become a vital issue in both men and women and the reasons behind this could be many. It could be due to environmental conditions, genetic or hormonal imbalance in the body. Alopecia is a “major autoimmune disorder that often results in unpredictable hair loss” says James McIntosh a researcher at the School of Medicine, University of Illinois- Chicago.

Now how do we detect alopecia and Is there any cure to it? Alopecia can be detected when you spot coin-sized patches leading to loss of hair. The loss of hair can be sudden and there can be results of itching and burning in areas before hair loss. “ A person with Alopecia universally lose all their hair, including eyebrows and eyelashes, facial hair, body hair, and hair on the head”- says Jennifer Bery, Medical News Today. There isn’t any cure for this disorder yet but there are some forms of treatment available in the derma industry.

India’s beauty industry is mounting on profits by selling altered beauty to people and also by telling them the many possible ways they can better their external flaw. There are societal pressures on how women or men should look like and baldness isn’t the one in their good books. “The growing celebrity influence, increases awareness to take care of one’s appearance, societal pressure and higher awareness levels are all turning out to be potential drivers for the hair transplant market”- says The Hindu. Alongside the plastic surgery industry in India, the hair transplant industry is also running parallelly with profits as an objective in mind. “The size of the Indian hair transplant market was estimated at Rs 453 crore in FY 2012-13. International chains are seeing India as a potential market for hair restoration”- says Ankit Goyal, Programme Manager, healthcare practice, Frost and Sullivan to The Hindu

‘We need to embrace’ a video created by attn: on Alopecia in the U.S. is an inspiration to watch. The video goes on to say that 30 million women in the U.S suffer from this disorder and 40 percent of men will show signs of baldness before the age of 49. It also says that so many of the people are made to believe that it’s a condition that needs to be treated. One of them a hair model says- “ I went to a dermatologist and started doing the dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) treatment which is the burning of the scalp, which hurts like bejeezus”.

The treatment for Alopecia is yet to be found but before that, we need to stop the culture of considering too many hairs as beautiful. The culture of modifying beauty with transplantation leads many into the threshold of death and danger. Beauty industry has created an unreal world by defining their own dictionary meaning on what looks beautiful and what doesn’t. We must learn to step away from such illusion while considering us beautiful.

You must have heard about the phrase “the bigger the better” and it perfectly sinks in today’s Day and Age. Tight fitted clothes are seen way behind with the arrival of baggy attires with its own sense of style and statement. Brands are opting for loosely fitted attires with their own style statement. Many brands are adopting styles that incudes everyone holistically irrespective of any body shape and size.

The trend of wearing oversized attires came into existence in the year 1980 says Porter Journal. There was a time when baggy attires were out the fashion world and wasn’t considered as trendy or fashionable. It wasn’t sexy enough to catch peoples attention since the meaning of being sexy then was a matter of showing one’s hourglass curves. Now, the designer has given an identity to baggy attires by making all age groups irrespective of any size and gender comfortable to gown it.

Few Baggy attires that you can pair with are

Over-sized overcoat with skinny jeans

Baggy pant with an Over-sized t-shirt

A Silver Metallic skirt with Over-sized top

Over-sized cardigan with skinny jeans